Close calls

I’m a tad groggy today. And, given that I’m not a coffee-drinker, I have to find some other way of keeping focused. [It's not that I don't drink coffee at all. I will drink it as a accompaniment to breakfast, or after dinner. However, I don't use it to wake up in the morning or to [...]

Media thoughts from all over (my head)

Weezer is a band that I was about five years too old to catch on to, but this new video for Pork & Beans is nerderrific. The song isn’t so bad either. You’re welcome.
I still haven’t completely decided whether I’m a Danica Patrick man or a Sarah Fisher man. Granted, Sarah has always played Andrew [...]

Mortgage crisis hits home

A neighbor of ours hadn’t been mowing his grass for a while, and a couple of weeks ago we saw a Rent-A-Center-type van in the driveway. The Wife and I were confused, but then it all became clear to us when we talked to some other neighbors (gotta love the information systems of the suburbs). [...]

Killing chihuahuas

Well, duh. The less you post, Hugh, the fewer times that people (even those who read the blog regularly) will come and visit. And your stats will go down. And you’ll get colds more often. And every day you don’t post, another two or three (almost-)endangered polar bears will fall lifeless into the melting arctic [...]

Shimmy-shake

I was going to say unwarrantedly nasty things about the people up in Kokomo who mistook the sonic boom of an F-16 fighter for a meteor shower. Last night, on the 102nd anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake, we felt a tremor here in the heartland. According to reports, it ws a 5.4 quake centered [...]

Cake or Death?

One of the many reasons I have a wonderful family. There’s not a lot of money floating around PQV headquarters, what with the taxes and all. Most of the discretionary income goes to pay for the kids’ school, and so I and the Wife don’t get out much. As those of you with kids know, [...]

Post-birthday thoughts

Well, yesterday was my birthday (and I know: it’s your birthday, too, yeah). I was born on a Monday as well, and now I see the full extent of the nastiness of any Monday birthday. It used to be that one of my company’s paid holidays was one’s birthday, but that got morphed into Spring [...]